The Federal Communications Commission voted last Wednesday to restart its review of restrictions on media ownership, two years after an earlier attempt to loosen the rules failed. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin called the work a “vital process” concerning important issues….
Catherine Bohigian, 34, has a lanky title at the Federal Communications Commission. But the long and short of it is that she is one of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s closest advisers.“I have relied on her judgment since I first came…
Last week, OLN announced several upcoming shows to debut in the fourth quarter that blend OLN’s traditional focus on outdoor adventures and the emphasis of its new brand, Versus, on competition programming. The series include: “The Barbecue Championship Series” (working…
David Gregory’s family connections helped him get a foot in the door of TV news, but they weren’t exactly helpful after he landed his first job.As news director at KGUN-TV in Tucson, Ariz., Ray Depa had just finished laying off…
Events probably didn’t go quite the way Univision Communications Chairman and CEO A. Jerrold Perenchio had been expecting last week. Mr. Perenchio had set a June 20 deadline for bidders interested in buying the Spanish-language media conglomerate. Two rival groups-one…
Audience measurements over the years have pointed to some patterns in program performance by genre: Sitcoms often hold up pretty well when repeated, while ratings levels are invariably lower for the rerun; dramas with continuous story lines have witnessed steeper…
Break.com doesn’t have the biggest audience of all video-sharing sites, nor does it offer the most clips. But it’s one of the stickiest, and it has something its biggest competitor, YouTube, doesn’t have: a content filter. Break posts only eight…
By Capitalizing on Goliath’s Weaknesses, Smaller Competitors Stake Out a Niche
At NBC’s affiliates meeting in April the two co-chairs of the Affiliates Futures Committee made the pitch to the 230 broadcast stations about their next digital venture. That’s the National Broadband Co., an online video service for which NBC’s rising…
Nielsen Media Research has agreed to provide the broadcast networks with a new stream of data showing the average ratings for the national commercials within a program. The data, which the networks requested several weeks ago, will be based on…